MEDES- IMPS

MEDES, located in Toulouse, is an Economic Group of Interest (Publicly-owned private organization, non-profit), whose main members are the Toulouse University Hospital, the French Space Agency, CNES, and several French Universities and University Hospitals. Since its creation in 1989, MEDES carries out activities in the field of e-Health, epidemiology, clinical research and activities or research projects related to the applications of space research or space technologies in the field of health. Moreover, this Institute is in charge of operating the Space Clinic, a centre for biomedical experiments, specialised in studies simulating the weightlessness.

MEDES staff includes various skills from medical doctors, nurses to biomedical engineers or computer engineers.